Lan Anh Vu

By Avinash Chaurasia, Lan Vu, Uday Kurkure, Hari Sivaraman, Sairam Veeraswamy Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is increasingly adopted by service providers to reduce cost and improve the efficiency and scalability of NFV services. Virtualization and cloud technologies are key to obtain these goals. With NFV, network functions (NF) that are traditionally performed by specialized hardware are now replaced by NF software executing on generic compute units such as x86 cores.

Mike Schultz, a nurse at Sutter Health in San Francisco, made national headlines last May after sharing a set of photos on Facebook that concisely summed up the toll COVID-19 took on him. “I wanted to show everyone how badly being sedated for 6 weeks on a ventilator or intubated can be,” he shared on Instagram, along with an image showing him before his COVID-19 diagnosis alongside one in the midst of his hospitalization where he weighed 50 pounds less, his broad and jacked stature all but gone.